Hey, Seattlites!

There’s a live painting going on today in Seattle, with a boatload of fun Seattle artists like Augie Pagan, Mat Savage, PaperMarbleS, CASH, Tessa Hulls, John Osgood and Sensei23 & Zach Bohnenkamp of Matamuros. Interesting collection of folks here, so head on over today, from 6:00pm to 9:00pm (thank goodness for Pacific Northwest summers) at Bherd Studios Gallery at The Greenwood Collective (8537 Greenwood Ave N Suite 1, Seattle, WA).

The online indie shop Insound have put together a series of poster and t-shirt designs for a bunch of bands that are the who’s who of indie rock right now. Here are some of the posters from that series — the best ones, actually. Some bands got slightly unexciting creations (notably, Liars), but others really got some star poster/t-shirt treatment.

Statement from Insound themselves:
“The series was created by Chicago based design studio Sonnenzimmer, featuring ten of our favorite bands that made noise in 2010: Beach House, Broken Social Scene, Girls, Liars, Neon Indian, The Mountain Goats, Owen Pallett, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Titus Andronicus, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists. The series consists of 10 t-shirts and 10 limited edition silkscreened posters done in Sonnenzimmer’s abstract design style; and interestingly enough the entire series of posters was designed to fit together into one larger image that was the basis for the team’s design.”

Check out the larger finished work at the end of this post.

Buy the limited edition collection here.

Elemental is a group show featuring collaborative pieces that have undergone Round Robin treatment by Yellena James, Jill Bliss, Betsy Walton, and APAK Studios (Aaron and Ayumi Piland), going on now at Together Gallery, through the end of the month (and then some).

Blackbirds

Breeze

Crystal Garden

Deep Sea Coral

Dreamcatcher

Embers

Portland conceptual artist Abraham Ingle’s first solo show is quite a curious one. Starting today at False Front Studio in Portland, Ingle will be displayed his socially-inspired art. The show, entitled If A Tree Falls… consists of all new practice projects which explore notions of presence in the age of “always on.” You should definitely visit this blog post on Ingle’s website to view more of the summary, but I’ll pick and choose a couple of interesting components to the six-part show:

Interruptions is a series of three videos that mix content from social media, drama, and real life to explore interaction. Interruptions was made in collaboration with Dustin Zemel.

A collaboration with The Portrait Booth Project, This is How I See You uses portraiture to juxtapose states of hyper-awareness and obliviousness.

The entire show will be streaming on Chat Roulette the entire time. YES.

This is sure to be a fascinating show.

Issue #5 of Good Vs. Evil zine features 84 pages of art on the theme of “Man Vs. Metal”! It’s limited to 150 copies. Not enticed? Here are some sample images for your eyes!

Artists in the issue include:
KOKOFREAKBEAN
MICHAELA COLETTE
ZEKE CLOUGH
ALEXANDER BINDER
ARNE MENSCH
BENEDIKT RUGAR
JON VAUGHN
JASON OVERBY
E ROCK
CAZZIMIR
PAKITO BOLINO
JASON FISCHER
PAUL PAETZEL
STEPHANE SOMA
LEON SADLER
ALKBAZZ
TETSUNORI
VAL GESTO
DIEGO MIEDO
HERRSCHULZ
DUY THANG NGUYEN
CRIPPA
LL COOL JO
THE HORROR
ANGO
ANDREW JAMES JONES
JAMES UNSWORTH
THOMAS RAIMONDI
ALEX CHIU
CHRISTIAN MARRA

Collaborations, collaborations, collaborations.

They sometimes get tired and predictable, but when they’re done correctly, as Kate Cleaves and Matt W. Moore have done with their show, Convergence, they can be exquisite. Toss in one part geometric works of Moore and one part soft organic form of Cleaves, and you have pieces like the one at left, which are divided by harsh lines but flowing with abstraction in between.

Ten collaborative pieces will be on display at the CorduroyGallery, upstairs from the Corduroy Boutique in Portland, Maine. The opening reception will be September 4th, 2009 at 6:00pm, and will showcase pieces which have been being worked on since March.

www.katecleaves.com
www.mwmgraphics.com
www.corduroyboutique.com